Top Smartwatches 2023

The TicWatch E3 has the future promise of Wear OS 3, along with some impressive fitness tracking capabilities but it has its flaws in terms of design and user experience. 

The new Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic are the first smartwatches to run Google’s new Wear OS 3. They’re excellent watches, but only if you use a Samsung Galaxy phone.

The TicWatch E3 is a feature-rich smartwatch with a large display and fast performance, although you might find its design and LCD screen lacking. It’s focused on general health and wellbeing with apps to measure stress, ambient sound, sleep, exercise and more. The latest news suggests it’ll get Google’s next Wear OS update, which makes it a safe bet if you’re looking for a reliable and affordable smartwatch.

The Realme Watch 2 slightly tweaks the look of its budget smartwatch but the big changes here are the improvements made in the battery department, which now means it can more comfortably get you a week of watch time. While it might not be the best budget smartwatch available around this price, it does offer another solid option to consider.

Mobvoi and Fossil make the most powerful Wear OS smartwatches you can buy for Android phones. They’re not bad, but not nearly as good as the Apple Watch.

The Zepp E is a gorgeous smartwatch with a great user interface, but it’s on the expensive side considering what’s on offer. 

The Garmin Vivomove Style is an attractive timepiece with real ticking hands and a hidden color display, but it lacks some useful smartwatch and health features.

The Diesel On Axial smartwatch has a rugged and masculine appearance that will appeal to those looking for a tougher and more daring-looking timepiece than most. Under the hood, it's a fairly typical high-end Wear OS smartwatch, but that's not a bad thing. It is expensive though.

The Samsung Galaxy Active2 smartwatch adds LTE connectivity along with a few useful new features, but it's not a compelling upgrade over the original model.

The Fitbit Versa Lite Edition is a bridge product that is essentially a fitness tracker in a smartwatch body. If you want to track basic health metrics but don’t need it all, then it’s a good, cheaper compromise compared to the regular Versa. If you want the full smartwatch feature set then Fitbit sells the regular Versa 2 or the Ionic.